The family of missing Broadway dancer Zelig Williams held a press conference on Wednesday to plead with the public for help.
Williams, 28, was last seen at his mother’s home in Columbia, SC on Thursday, October 3. The family filed a missing person‘s report with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department the next day.
He was last seen driving in the area of the Congaree State Park. Officials say his vehicle was discovered abandoned in a parking lot inside the park.
Family members say it is uncommon for Williams to go for days without contacting them. They say he stopped taking his schizophrenia medication before he went missing.
Williams’ distraught mother, Kathy Williams, was surrounded by emotional family members during the press conference.
Kathy Williams said she saw her son leave home at 10 a.m. on Oct. 3.
“Our plea and our ask is to pay attention, look at his face on the flyers, on the pictures, he might have facial hair he might not,” Williams’ cousin, Mieoki Corbett-Jacobs said through tears. “We beg you to please pay attention and bring him home.”
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A friend received an SOS ping from his cell phone, indicating he had been in a car crash, Corbett-Jacobs said. The friend reached out to Williams’ mother to share their concerns.
Corbett-Jacobs said the car deputies located in the park did not show signs of an accident, which raised the family’s suspicions.
“He didn’t wander off. This is definitely a missing persons (case) with suspected foul play,” she said.
The sheriff’s department told CNN officials are investigating the potential for foul play and are “following up on all leads and all information” in the case.
The park is a well-known cruising hang out for men who have sex with men.
Corbett-Jacobs also revealed that Williams is his mother’s last surviving child, after she lost both her daughters in a car accident in 2004.
Kathy Williams broke down in tears and collapsed in Corbett-Jacobs’ arms. She repeated the words, “He’s all I got, he’s all I got, he’s all I got, please bring my baby home.”
